Ha! Peter, I love it. You've shown us up, I guess. From your posts to this list you sound to me like a dutchman (that's a compliment coming from me).
Thus spake Peter Cornelius on this Mon, 26 Aug 2002 : ] Gerard wrote: ] ] > I'm looking for the combination of shell commands that will give me the ] >combined size of a number of files. ] > Like the dos dir command gives: 34 files, 390kb. ] ] One mouse click with a GUI file manager and result of '34 files, 390kb' ] immediately displayed. ] ] So much for those poor souls who have to use abbreviations because they're ] overrun with keystrokes. ] ] >And since some distro have a line in bashrc that aliases 'dir' to 'ls -al', ] on those distros the command 'dir' gives you what you want, just like the ] originalquestion. Wow - full circle. ] ] Yes, full circle. Back where you started. The graphic interface was ] heralded 20 years ago as being the best thing since sliced bread. Where you ] guys been for the past 20 years? Linux has recently entered the 20th ] Century, why not now move on and join some of us in the 21st. ] ] Peter.
